We had some shopping to do this morning in Kaur, Sanaba is
coming on Sunday to start some modifications to the kitchen, building a
verandah/porch to enable the cooks to prepare the food outside in the rainy
season. They have a very large cooking pot
here which will not fit onto the oven inside and so a small fire is built
outside, and the cooks prepare the rice here.
We had breakfast in the local café (a corrugate shack with wooden
benches) and then organised a donkey cart to take Channeh, the cement, wood,
corrugate and other purchases back to the school whilst we got on the road to
Sinchu Njabo our next stop.
2 years ago Beechdale Solar Energy installed a system here
to power a computer room in the school.
There is a problem with it at the moment, so Steve was going to try and
get it started again. Anne and I sat in
the shade whilst both Steves worked in the small classroom where the solar
batteries are kept. Mr Sowe came to meet
us and to collect all the wages cheques for the summer, along with paperwork
and other items which had been requested.
The first attempt at getting the system started failed and so we moved
into the shade of the mango tree as the sun had reached our original
position. We said goodbye to Mr Sowe
until November, and then eventually the solar system restarted and we were able
to get on the road once more, passing through Loumen with a small delivery and
then onto the main road where our holiday started! Through Farafenni and onto
the ferry terminal where fortunately we had our priority letter to hand; from no
traffic on Tuesday, the Senegalese drivers had once more decided to drive
through Gambia
and use the ferry and a queue of about a kilometre had formed. We were able to drive to the front of the
queue and board on the first ferry to arrive, a wait of about an hour in the
searing heat.
Once across the river we had a drive of around an hour
before reaching Tendaba camp where after checking in our first thought was a
swim and a cold beer! We met up with
Tess, Alan, Vlad, Paul, Ellie and Rhona who had arrived earlier today, had a
nice cold drink before dinner and an early night ready for another boat trip
tomorrow.
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